To make it even easier, they used the password "ABCDE". But that is
the icing on the cake. There are programs that reliably guess WEP
passwords. No matter what password they had chosen, the machine would
still have been vulnerable to anyone with some expertise.

Today's voting computers might have a little better security,
but that doesn't mean they can be trusted. Even if the security is
enough to thwart random passers-by, that does not mean it will stop
people from the company that made the machine, or people from the
election authority, from rigging the election indetectably.

Voter verified paper audit trail

Internet Voting

They had the good fortune of knowing there was a security flaw.
If a state tries internet voting and does not find a security flaw,
that doesn't mean there isn't one. It means there is one and it
has not been found.

In addition to the software vulnerabilities, remote voting opens
the door for voters to be coerced by their bosses, by abusive spouses,
etc. It is a foolish risk to permit remote voting except in special
cases such as when people are travelling or in the hospital.

If young people are not voting, it's because they see the candidates
that might win are working for plutocrats. Making it less work to vote
is no solution.

All remote voting has a fundamental danger: your boss or your violent
spouse might coerce you to vote a certain way. This is bad for
democracy and has no technical fix.

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